Great orchestra
THE pride that we all feel that our tiny, beloved and beleagured country, Israel, has produced an orchestra of such magnificence is indescribable…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 2002
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IPO audience enraptured Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
THERE are occasions when you feel an orchestra has made a composition its own, and when it comes time to play it the musicians…
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The chaplain of the New York Fire Department, Rabbi Joseph Potansik, stands next to a memorial to the victims of September 11. Members of the New York Board of Rabbis will gather in downtown New York City on Saturday night for a highly unusual sellchot, the prayer of repentance. This service, which traditionally heralds the high holy days, will be conducted at Ground Zero. The ceremony marks Elul 23 which falls on the first annual yahrzelt of September 11. Photo: JTA…
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Mendy Cahan, director of the Vilnius Yiddish Institute — the first academic Yiddish institute in Eastern Europe since the Holocaust — at its fifth annual Vilnius summer program which focused on Yiddish language and culture, attracting 70 students from around the world. The program was split between classroom and culture: Intensive…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Australian’s promising debut Sydney Theatre Company's Wharf 2 Until October 27 Hanging Man
THIS is the first production of Australian writer Andrew Upton’s first original stage play. He is already well known as an adaptor and, for the screen, an adaptor and director — and…
Continued on Trove, page 23 →New slant on love triangle at the Ensemble Ensemble Theatre Until October 5 Japes
LEADING British critics hailed prolific playwright Simon Gray’s latest work as a triumph by “a terrific writer at the height of his powers”, but were less than enthusiastic…
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Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon receives a blessing from an old army friend as a group of soldiers and volunteers visit his succah in Jerusalem. Photo: JTA Jews from the former Yugoslavia gather on an island off the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →music reviews Concert Review: time [?]Solo performance Sydney Opera House Studio September 28th Reviewed by Nick Scow
The Studio at the Opera House seems an unlikely venue for a musician I associate more with smoky, crowded bars. The soft ambient lighting and comfy [?]eating threw me off for a bit. But the army of Tim…
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Seven-year-old Jasmin Abu Ramela from the West Bank village of Kfar Akba near Ramallah recovers in hospital in Petach Tikvah after receiving a kidney from Scottish student Yoni Jesner, 19, who was killed in a Palestinian terror attack in…
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Czechoslovakian theatre-director Jaroslav Achab Haldler examines a headstone as part of his project documenting the Jewish cemeteries of Bohemia and Moravia. Haldler, planning to convert to Judaism, has launched an internet site www.chewra.com to help people all over the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Ball is a really cool place which I went to for eight days
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Continued on Trove, page 24 →JN Arts Contrived musical is a knock-out Lyric theatre Long season predicted Mamma Mia!
Mamma Mia! is one of the most heavily publicised shows to come to this town (from Melbourne via Brisbane) in years…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Horror story with plenty laughs Company B at Belvoir Street Theatre Until November 5 Sam Shepard's Buried Child
AMERICAN Sam Shepard won a Pulitzer Prize for this horror story, set on a farm somewhere in the middle of the US…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →TALKING pointless 4th birthday ROCKTOBER concert!
Talking Pointless is 4! And to celebrate we are having a concert bigger then the big day out, M-one, Rumba put together! It's the…
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Security guard Michael Sarkisov, back on duty at a Tel Aviv cafe after preventing a major terror attack last Friday night when he chased a Palestinian suicide bomber who was apprehended by security guards near the United States Embassy before he could detonate the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Touring Band tunes up
THE Moriah College Touring Band is preparing for its impending trip to the United States. Sponsored by ANZ, the band…
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A boy celebrates his bar mitzvah by reading from the Torah at the Kotel. He was one of 28 boys and girls from families who have been victims of terror in Israel who celebrated their b’nai and b’not mitzvah. The ceremony was organised by the Jewish Agency’s Fund for the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Big Bang Concert 'big' succes
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An accident victim is resuscitated by Magen David Adom (MDA) paramedics. The Montreal-based Canadian MDA, which has operated since 1976, is fighting to preserve its status as a registered charity, launching a court action after the Canada Customs and Revenue Agency threatened in 2001 to revoke the group’s charitable…
Continued on Trove, page 16 →When life becomes a balancing act The Dance of the Dolphin
Karyn D Kedar Jewish Lights, 2002, 143 pages, $49.95 Reviewed by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen THE title of this book is intriguing,…
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